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NATASHA MARRIAN: Plugging holes in a sinking ship
DA leader John Steenhuisen says you can’t run a country on short-term fixes — what’s needed is growth
06 March 2025 - 05:00
Proposals have been submitted and arguments put forward, and it is now up to the National Treasury to table a more palatable budget on March 12.
The 2025 budget was postponed on February 19 after the DA rejected finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s move to increase VAT by two percentage points — a historic moment, because the ANC for the first time had to reckon with the real-time implications of co-governing...
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